In the Forest of the Night

Illustration to "In the Forest of the Night" by Alter Reiss, published in The Lovecraft eZine #34, March 2015, which can be read online here.

For this fantasy-flavored mythos tale, I tried to capture the sense of a medieval tapestry or renaissance woodcut by skewing and compressing the perspective. The flourish of the Elder God was fun to lose myself in, and the design of the bones on the sacrificial stone is, to me, the picture's strong point, and alone could've been the illustration.